Job Title: Kubernetes Engineer Lead
Location(s): Miami, FL
(Remote)
Experience Required- 8+ years in Platform Engineering, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Cloud Engineering
- Extensive experience managing enterprise production Kubernetes environments
- Experience supporting mission-critical, highly available platforms
- Strong automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) background
Primary Responsibilities- Design, build, and manage enterprise Kubernetes platforms
- Administer EKS Anywhere throughout the complete cluster lifecycle
- Implement GitOps using ArgoCD and Helm
- Build platform automation and self-service capabilities
- Develop Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
- Implement monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing
- Manage Kubernetes security, secrets, and policy enforcement
- Support AWS cloud infrastructure modernization
- Improve platform reliability, scalability, and operational excellence
- Develop AI-assisted operational automation tools
Mandatory Technical SkillsKubernetes Platform- Kubernetes
- Amazon EKS
- EKS Anywhere
- Cluster API (CAPI)
- eksctl-anywhere
- Bootstrap Cluster
- Management Cluster
- Workload Cluster
- Cluster lifecycle management
- Node replacement
- Worker node scaling
- Cluster troubleshooting
Networking & Storage- kube-vip
- HAProxy
- LoadBalancer Services
- StorageClass
- Persistent Volumes (PV)
- Persistent Volume Claims (PVC)
GitOps & Deployment- ArgoCD
- GitOps
- Helm
- ApplicationSets
- App of Apps Pattern
- Sync Policies
- Cluster Generator
- Matrix Generator
- Repository Management
Infrastructure Automation- Terraform
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- AWS Cloud
- CI/CD Pipelines
ProgrammingOperating SystemsObservability- OpenTelemetry
- Datadog
- Splunk
- Prometheus
Security- HashiCorp Vault
- Vault Integration
- Sealed Secrets
- Trust Manager
- Image Security
- Policy Enforcement
Rafay Platform- Organization Administration
- Cluster Blueprints
- Fleet Management
- Environment Manager
- Multi-Cluster Management
- Namespace Management
- Blueprint Versioning
- Policy Management
Harness- Projects
- Organizations
- Connectors
- Secrets
- Environments
- Infrastructure Definitions
- Services
- Templates
- Repository Management
- Cluster Integration
Preferred Skills- Kubernetes Operators and Controllers development
- Event-driven automation
- Serverless technologies
- AI-assisted operations
- Platform engineering best practices
- Capacity planning
- Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
- Incident Management
- Performance tuning
- Enterprise governance
Nice-to-Have- Multi-account AWS architecture
- Internal developer platforms
- Self-service platform engineering
- Cloud-native architecture
- Platform modernization initiatives
Ideal Candidate ProfileThe ideal candidate is a senior Platform Engineer or Site Reliability Engineer with deep expertise in Kubernetes, EKS Anywhere, AWS, Terraform, ArgoCD, Helm, HashiCorp Vault, and enterprise platform automation. Experience with Rafay and Harness is highly desirable, along with strong knowledge of GitOps, observability, Linux administration, and cloud-native engineering. Candidates who have built internal developer platforms, automated Kubernetes operations, and managed large-scale production clusters will be the strongest fit.
